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J Neurophysiol 76: 788-798, 1996;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 76, Issue 2 788-798, Copyright © 1996 by APS

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Sensory feedback and central afferent interaction in the muscle receptor organ of the crab, Carcinus maenas

M. Wildman and A. Cannone
Department of Zoology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

1. An interaction exists between two proprioceptive afferent neurons innervating the thoracic-coxal muscle receptor organ (TCMRO) of the crab, Carcinus maenas. Intracellular recordings were made from the extraganglionic regions of the afferents in order to characterize this interaction and its effects on sensory feedback. 2. A current-induced depolarization of the nonspiking T fiber of the TCMRO results in a depolarization of the P fiber, a small-diameter (7 microns) neuron innervating the same receptor. This interaction is graded in amplitude, and may result in a single action potential being superimposed on the graded response of the P fiber. A hyperpolarization of the T fiber has a smaller effect on the P fiber than a depolarization of similar amplitude. The interaction is rectified in a T- to P-fiber direction, and has a minimum central delay of approximately 3.6 ms. 3. The site of the interaction between the afferents is situated centrally, within the thoracic ganglion. Action potentials evoked in the P fiber by a T-fiber depolarization propagate actively and antidromically to the periphery. 4. Central modulation of the interaction occurs, because the amplitude of a T-fiber-induced depolarization is reduced in the P fiber during centrally generated spontaneous bursts of activity in the motoneurons of basal leg muscles. 5. Because of the interaction between T and P fibers, action potentials recorded from the peripheral portion of the P fiber during receptor stretch may be either orthodromic, resulting directly from the effects of the stretch on the sensory endings of the P fiber, or antidromic, resulting from the central input from the T fiber. 6. The T- to P-fiber interaction may serve to extend the dynamic sensitivity range of the P fiber, in particular by amplifying its sensory response at short receptor lengths and low velocities of stretch.


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